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Show an a: Let me check my calendar . . . I love calendars, don't you? Calendars have gorgeous pictures on them and you hate to get rid of them at the end of the year. We save a lot of ours because they are so pretty and we might find a use for them sometime. I am not sure what, but maybe. We recently got a nice calendar at the office from KTVX TV (Channel 4) but it is really different and it throws you at first. It is a two-year calendar and it lists the 24 months on one big posterlike poster-like placard. That is a nice feature because you caa see the month you want at a glance rather than having to flip through a bunch of pages. However, it has a strange feature. It begins with Monday as the first day of the week, just like we actually think 'of it. But you are not used to seeing, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday in that sequence on the calendar. Everyone who comes in the office, and even me, looks at it and doesn't notice the labeling of the days and thinks the calendar is wrong when they look for Wednesday and see Thursday's date. Not only are the days of the week sequence out of step, so to speak, but the calendar only ends in full weeks. So, using July as an example, the last day listed for July is Sunday, July 27. The other four days are listed in the first week of August. If you are not concentrating you would all of a sudden think that July had been shortened to 27 days or that p.g. blab i - ?XJ By TV MARCELLA fW i WALKER the calendar people really goofed up. However, once you learn to read the calendar it is kind of helpful. Learning it, though, is the tough part. Every January I get one of those little Hallmark calendars to put in my purse to keep track of all my appointments because I sure have a bunch and my memory is not all that it should be. The computer is getting full, I tell folks. ; At the first of the year I go through and mark all the dates that I know of, such as my kids birthdays, our anniversary, etc., city council meetings, and all such set things. In January I added the upcoming MIA activities since I work inthat auxiliary. By February the calendar is lost among a whole lot of other junk in my purse and nothing is marked other than what got marked in January. I did better in March and at the end of the month I marked the Chamber of Commerce meetings and the Strawberry Days Queen pageant. Nothing is in April. In May I did better about listing things but I am sure I did not open the calendar after they were listed. There is nothing in June, although it was a very busy month what with a trip, Strawberry Days, and another trip. July did little better although it does have the incorrect date for a family reunion marked. If it were not for all the birthdays our family has in August, there would be nothing listed there at all. Yet, school starts, the family reunion is then, plus several other things. Of course, there is nothing but birthdays listed for the rest of the year. After all, we are not even there yet. Right? Do you forget to turn over calendars at home at the end of the month? About the middle of the month I look at the calendar for the first time in weeks and notice that it is still on June and July is well gone. I always remember at work, fortunately, for-tunately, because we live by the calendar and the deadline there. Next to our telephone we have one of those big eraseable calendars that you fill in each month with grease pencil. It has big squares for each date so that you can write in all of your appointments. I forget to check it, too. In fact, I forget to erase the old month and fill in the new month,- so frequently, we have a month i in beginning in the middle and aj p1' month picking up midway u the calendar. 'i ' Everyone is used to my melhx' keeping this calendar up to datf ' P no one worries about it, I don't th ! One of the paper distributes I often given out calendars ' j have one large print of a J i ( painting on it. They are it I framing, which, of course, we J I not done. But they are placed id1 1 ' walls of the office and we je ' many comments on them. 1 1 r Often people want to know J I u the item in the painting is lw:) ! real life. There is an old eta1 1 which everyone comments onlJ j is a farm in winter with the u milling about looking for someti I to eat. There is an old, abate I mill in winter. And, finally, there:. I Ralston-Purina mill after a rJ J storm. I - Many people ask if this is tkels j . mill at Lehi at first glance. J I Did you know there is a cat:; I " on the record keeper in n: I checkbook? Did you know laic forget to look there when W o i look up a date? I bet you doto I P But, then, who cares whaltol is, anyway? Time goes byw! fast and you don't need toseetij days fly by studying thecalenfe: a regular basis. On vacation you don't cares day it is. We should be like thatr of the time, don't you think? Oh, no! While I was writings, missed an appointment. Do " think they will believe my excus' |